Actually, seeing a picture of me biting my nails helped me stop. Context: I was 12 years old, in sixth grade, and in the middle of some academic competition at school when someone took pictures for the yearbook. I was caught completely off-guard, and was probably biting my nails because I was nervous. Fast-forward to the end of the school year when the school handed out yearbooks, and among the other pictures I see that one where I got caught biting my nails. The embarrassment of knowing that that picture ended up in the yearbook for everyone to see and remember was enough to make me quit biting my nails. That was ten years ago and I haven’t bitten my nails since.

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